Anthony Ossa-Richardson is lecturer in English literature at the University of Southampton. He is the author of The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought (Princeton).
A History of Ambiguity is unambiguously wonderful - the sort of book I thought no one could write any more . . . Ossa-Richardson's book is an epic love song to scholarship . . . . it's well written and intelligently funny. Ossa-Richardson has the big picture in mind. ---Robert Eaglestone, Times Higher Education Ossa-Richardson demonstrates his mastery of the two classic attributes of the intellectual historian: first, a willingness to do justice to the variety of forms that ideas can take, and second, a close attention to detail in the establishment of intellectual genealogies. As a work of intellectual history, this book is a remarkable achievement. ---James Everest, Essays in Criticism